In many States, usually Southern or Border, they have laws against covering your face in public (due to history of the Klan etc) and in most places they have laws about incitement to riot, in addition to the normal rules about assault, battery, blocking a thoroughfare, vandalism, public intoxication, and so on. It is true that the police have been told to 'stand down' and that the DA's just won't prosecute? Does the average citizen really like this kind of behavior? Why do they tolerate it?

In many States, usually Southern or Border, they have laws against covering your face in public (due to history of the Klan etc) and in most places they have laws about incitement to riot, in addition to the normal rules about assault, battery, blocking a thoroughfare, vandalism, public intoxication, and so on. It is true that the police have been told to 'stand down' and that the DA's just won't prosecute? Does the average citizen really like this kind of behavior? Why do they tolerate it?

They also have lenient concealed carry laws -- for the most part. I dont know a single person who does not carry.